SNP MSP welcomes end of US-wide abortion rights ahead of Scottish summit on defending access to clinics

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A controversial SNP MSP has been slammed by colleagues and opponents for welcoming the historic US Supreme Court decision that ended the constitutional right to abortion.

The pro-life politician John Mason suggested that the end of US-wide rights to abortion opened the possibility of Scotland diverging from the rest of the UK when it came to the 24-week limit on terminations.

His intervention comes just hours ahead of Nicola Sturgeon’s Scottish summit on access to abortion clinics. Mason has already been condemned for saying that he does not see “any great need” for buffer zones around abortion clinics in Scotland.Mason, who represents Glasgow Shettleston, is a committed Christian who has defended the anti-abortion “vigils” that have sprung up at Glasgow hospitals in a copy of protests seen at US abortion clinics.Now, in an e mail response to an inquiry, Mason said he was “pretty positive” about the US court ruling which overturned the 50-year-old Roe vs Wade case that guaranteed abortion rights across America.He linked the return to individual US states ruling on abortion instead of federal law to the devolution of powers over the abortion process to the Scottish parliament.He said: “In the first place it is good for democracy as decisions on abortion will be made at state level rather than United States wide.""This brings the US into line with the UK with decisions on abortion are made at a Scotland or England level or not a UK level.”Mason added: “However, I fully accept that the key issues here is abortion itself.

I note points people are making about women’s rights. However others would argue that from the point of conception, there are two people with the rights both the woman and the baby.